Politics is a dirty game they say and it has been proved true once again. Though sadly it has been done by none other than Amanatullah Khan, sitting MLA of the so-called "Party with a difference" from Okhla constituency of Delhi.

Days after announcing that party president Rahul Gandhi will be its prime ministerial candidate in the upcoming 2019 Lok Sabha election, Congress sources told journalists on Tuesday that they will support any candidate who isn?t backed by the Sangh parivar or the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today wrote to Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal, questioning how he could be "selective" about accepting various provisions of last week's landmark Supreme Court order that said the real power in Delhi lies with its elected government and not the Centre's representative.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said he had made four calls to enquire about ally-turned adversary Lalu Prasad's health out of human consideration and without any political motivation. But he said he won?t do it anymore.

The Congress on Thursday accused the BJP of using the September 2016 surgical strike for political gains, inviting strong reaction from the ruling party which charged its principal rival with lowering the morale of armed forces.

The National Commission for Women (NCW) has flatly rejected a survey that named India as the most dangerous country in the world for women. The NCW said the number of people surveyed could in no way reflect the state of affairs in a country of 1.3 billion people.

A conspiracy was being hatched by various political parties in the country and at the global level to prevent Prime Minister Narendra Modi from coming back to power in 2019, a senior BJP leader from Karnataka has claimed.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi ended the Karnataka campaign on Thursday with a sharp retaliation to BJP's jibe on his mother and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi's Italian descent, saying she was "more Indian than many Indians I have met".

BJP MP Udit Raj said on Friday that merely having food at homes of Dalits is not enough, as the need of the hour is to address their aspirations and grievances, which are not the same as it were in 80s or 90s.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said those agitating against its March 20 order putting in place certain safeguards on arrests under the SC/ST Act may not have read the judgement or could have been misled by "vested interests", as it refused to keep in abeyance the verdict.

Making up to some extent for its defeat at the hands of SP-BSP combine in Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha constituencies, the BJP on Friday scored a major victory when its candidate defeated a BSP nominee for the 10th seat in the Rajya Sabha biennial elections in which Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and actor Jaya Bachchan of the SP were re-elected.

The Congress on Friday said it would fight the office of profit case involving 20 AAP MLAs in the Election Commission of India (ECI) again after the Delhi High Court set aside their disqualification and asked the poll panel to hear the matter afresh.

A day after he launched a sharp attack on PM Narendra Modi, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi targeted Modi again on Monday and said he was in denial about the threat of "mass unemployment" and his "acche din" claim would take a beating.

At the conclusion of the 84th plenary session of Indian National Congress on Sunday, party president Rahul Gandhi outlined a roadmap to defeat Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi came down heavily on the BJP in his first address to the party plenary today, saying the saffron outfit "uses anger" to divide the country, something the Congress will never do.

UP by election results 2018: In a big setback for the ruling BJP, the Samajwadi Party on Wednesday won Phulpur, which was vacated by UP deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya as well as won the Gorakhpur seat (vacated by UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath).

Congress President Rahul Gandhi met French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday and said they discussed issues common to both democracies including fake news and looked forward to collaborating with him on climate change.

The Delhi High Court on Monday granted bail to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Amanatullah Khan in the Chief Secretary assault case. Delhi Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash had alleged that during a meeting at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence he was assaulted by the AAP MLAs.

AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi spoke on a number of issues on Sunday ranging from assassination of Mahatma Gandhi to the controversial Triple Talaq bill. He called Nathuram Godse, the man who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi, as the 'Number 1 Hindu Rashtra Terrorist'.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that internal bickering and generational fight within the Congress party and issues relating to corruption led to its defeat in the 2014 general election.

Congress leader Sonia Gandhi Friday urged "like-minded parties" to sink their local differences for unity at the national level even as she said that "acche din" would prove to be the nemesis of Modi government like "India Shining" was for Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

CBI has said the arrest of Karti Chidambaram followed a statement by accused Indrani Mukerjea in which she had alleged that P Chidambaram, while he was Union Finance Minister, had asked her and her husband Peter Mukerjea to help his son's business.